I have been conducting a completely unscientific study on graduate schools and engineering programs in New York. One slightly alarming observation is that engineering programs seem to be dominated by international students. In fact some of the programs I have visited have more international students than American students. I don’t have a problem with International […]
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Former Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Denise Sheehan is now executive director of the Climate Registry, a non-profit organization that operates the only voluntary carbon footprint registry in North America supported by states, provinces, territories and tribes. The registry helps hundreds of public and private organizations measure, report and reduce carbon emissions. Sheehan was DEC […]
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This week’s guest will be Pete Iwanowicz, acting Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation and deputy secretary for the environment under Gov. David Paterson. Iwanowicz, who took over DEC after Paterson abruptly fired former DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis last month over a memo outlining dire consequences of the governor’s further budget cuts, will talk […]
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The Assembly’s Environmental Conservation Committee has set a Nov. 18 hearing to discuss the recent impacts of budget cuts at the Department of Environmental Conservation. Topping the list of invited guests is Pete Iwanowicz, acting DEC commissioner. Iwanowicz, deputy secretary of the environment for Gov David Paterson, took over DEC after Paterson fired former Commissioner […]
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Here’s some information from the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy on two workshops in November: Geocaching and Letterboxing. GEOCACHING: Saturday November 6th at EMS in Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany (3:00 pm): What is Geocaching? What do you need to know to get started? Christopher Parker, a local geocacher, will teach about this high-tech treasure hunting game played […]
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Mohawk Fine Papers, located in Cohoes, again made the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s national top 50 list of green power purchasers… Here is a profile of the company that recently ran in the TU’s business supplment, Capitaland Quarterly.
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Is the environment too expensive to keep at a time when some people simply want to cut everything? Read what the people who want to be governor have to say about it… UPDATE: And coincidentally, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo today released his environmental platform … here … A bevy of environmental leaders sang its […]
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In case you missed it, we have an encore performance of last week’s program … here is the original description… The sudden sacking of DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis by Gov. David Paterson has the environmental community and elected officials up in arms _ and the governor finding no political allies willing to stand up publicly […]
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After first being reported Saturday in the Times Union, Peter Iwanowicz, the deputy secretary for the environmental to Gov. David Paterson, has been named to head the Department of Environmental Conservation after the governor fired DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis last week. Paterson’s office made it official late Thursday with this release… And today, the American […]
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